100 & 90 in the same test

Australia's Shane Watson scored hundred against Pakistan on Tuesday at Melbourne in the ongoing first test. He scored 93 in the first innings of a test thus he became 8th Australian batsmen to score hundred and nervous ninety in the same match. This was the 42nd instance when a batsman scored hundred and 90 in the same test. West Indies batsman S Chanderpaul did it twice.
Here is the list of Australian batsmen.

Player, score1, score2, Vs, At, Season
RM Cowper, 92, 108, India, Adelaide, 1967-68
PM Toohey, 122, 97, West Indies, Kingston, 1977-78
AR Border, 98*, 100*, West Indies, Port of Spain, 1983-84
MA Taylor, 334*, 92, Pakistan, Peshwar, 1997-98
JA Langer, 191, 97,Pakistan, Perth, 2004-05
DR Martyn, 114, 97, India, Nagpur, 2004-05
RT Ponting, 101, 99, S Africa, Melbourne, 2008-09
SR Watson, 93, 120*, Pakistan, Melbourne, 2009-10

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Both Openers Out in Nervous Nineties

Australian opener Shane Watson and Simon Katich lost there wickets in the nervous nineties on Saturday against Pakistan on the first day of the Boxing Day test at Melbourne.
This provides the only 4th instance in the test history that both openers out in nervous nineties of a test innings. First time it has happened at Lahore in 1978-79 when India’s Sunil Gavaskar and Chetan Chauhan out on 97 and 93 respectively against Pakistan.
Out of four such occasions twice has been done by the Indian opener.
Here is the list.
SM Gavaskar (97) & CPS Chauhan (93) India vs Pakistam, Lahore, 1978-79
VVS Laxman (95) & NS Sidhu (97) India vs Australia, Kolkata, 1997-98
Mohd Hafeez (95) & Imran Farhat (91) Pakistan vs England, The Oval, 2006
SR Watson (93) & SM Katich (98) Australia vs Pakistan, MCG, 2009-10

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Sachin : First time unbeaten in 90s

Sachin Tendulkar remained not out on 96 against Sri Lanka at Cuttack on Monday. This was the first instance when master blaster stranded into the nervous nineties in his 439-match ODI career.
Sachin Tendulkar has scored 18 such score in his career but every previous time he lost his wicket. However 11 out of his 18 nervous nineties India have won the match while lost in other 7 ODIs.
Here is the list of Sachin Tendulkar’s nervous nineties in One Day Internationals.
Runs, Vs, at, on, Result
90, Australia, Mumbai (Wankhede), 27-2-1996
91, England, Sharjah, 11-12-1997
95, Pakistan, Dhaka, 14-1-1998
93, Pakistan, Hobart, 21-1-2000
93, South Africa, Nagpur, 19-3-2000
93, Sri Lanka, Dhaka, 1-6-2000
98, Pakistan, Centurion, 1-3-2003
97, Sri Lanka, Wanderers, 10-3-2003
93, Sri Lanka, Nagpur, 25-10-2005
95, Pakistan, Lahore, 13-2-2006
99, South Africa, Belfast, 26-6-2007
93, South Africa, Belfast, 29-6-2007
99, England, Bristol, 24-8-2007
94, England, The Oval, 5-9-2007
99, Pakistan, Mohali, 8-11-2007
97, Pakistan, Gwalior, 15-11-2007
91, Australia, Brisbane, 4-3-2008
96*, Sri Lanka, Cuttack, 21-12-2009

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Rajkot ODI and Tuesday

India and Sri Lanka will play the first ODI of the series at Rajkot on Tuesday 15 December. So its again Tuesday at Rajkot. There are 11 ODI matches has been played at Rajkot and 5 of them hosted on Tuesday. Rajkot's Madhavrao Scindhia stadium will hit a sixer of Tuesday on 15 December.
However Tuesday is not that much lucky for India at Rajkot. India has played 10 matches with 50% success but they lost 3 of the five ODI here on Tuesday.
India lost to Australia when the first ever One Day International played here on 7 October 1986 and that was on Tuesday. India again lost here when Sir Vivian Richards hit a masterful 100 on 5 January 1988 against West Indies on Tuesday.
The home team also lost to South Africa in 1996 by 5 wickets on the last Tuesday of October (29th)
However India won against Sri Lanka in 1994 with the help of a hundred by NS Sidhu and then against West Indies when Virender Sehwag scored unbeaten 114 off just 85 balls in 2002. No need to say both time it was Tuesday.

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Chris Gayle joins Desmond Haynes

West Indies captain Chris Gayle played a magnificent innings of 165 not out against Australia on Tuesday and now join the like of Desmond and Frank Worrell by carrying the bat through an innings. This was the only 6th instance when a West Indian opener remained not at the end of the test innings. Desmond Haynes has done it three times while Conrad Hunte and the great Worrell have done it once in their respective career.
To fight till the end is very rare achievement for any opener and in this era of T20 and One Day Internationals carrying the bat throughout the innings is something like scoring triple hundred in an innings.
Interestingly Frank Worrell stranded on 191 when all his partner were out against England at Trent Bridge in 1957 and missed out the Double hundred.
Here is the list of the West Indies batsman carrying bat through a completed innings in test matches.
197* Frank Worrell Vs England, Trent Bridge, 1957
60* Conrad Hunte Vs Australia, Port of Spain, 1964-65
88* Desmond Haynes Vs Pakistan, Karachi, 1986-87
75* Desmond Haynes Vs England, The Oval, 1991
143* Desmond Haynes Vs Pakistan, Port of Spain, 1992-93
165* Chris Gayle Vs Australia, Adelaide, 2009-10

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TWO Double century partnership

Virender Sehwag has now one unique record in his kitty. Though he missed his third triple hundred by only 7 runs on Friday against Sri Lanka at the Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai and also a world record but created another record and that is unique.
Sehwag, on the way of scoring 293 runs, have registered two double century partnership in the same innings. Test cricket have witnessed 200 runs (or more) partnership by the same pair in the same test, more then TWO double hundred partnerships in the same innings by various pair but one batsman added 200 or more twice in the same innings with different partners is really rare. This has happened only 8 times in the history and unique thing is Sehwag has done it twice.
Sehwag added 221 runs with Murali Vijay for the first wicket and then went onto add 237 runs with Rahul Dravid for the second wicket against Sri Lanka in India’s first innings. Two seasons back in 2007-08 Sehwag put on 213 with Wasim Jaffer for the first wicket and 268 again with Dravid for the second wicket at Chepauk against South Africa. That time he scored 319.
Here is the list of the players who have posted TWO double century stand in the same innings of a test.
*** Len Hutton (382 with M Leyland, 2nd wkt) and (215 with J Hardstaff Jr)
England Vs Australia at The Oval, 1938.
*** Bob Simpson (201 with Bill Lawry, 1st wkt) and (219 with BC Booth, 5th wkt)
Australia Vs England at Old Trafford, 1964
*** Grant Flower (269 wit Andy Flower, 4th wkt) and (233* with Guy Whittall, 5th wkt)
Zimbabwe Vs Pakistan, at Harare, 1994-95
*** ML Hayden (207 with SR Waugh, 4th wkt) and (233 with AC Gilchrist, 6th wkt)
Australia Vs Zimbabwe at Perth, 2003-04
*** BC Lara (232 with R Sarwan, 3rd wkt) and (282* with R Jacobs, 6th wkt)
West Indies Vs England at St John’s, 2003-04
*** V Sehwag (213 with Wasim Jaffer, 1st wkt) and (268 with RS Dravid, 2nd wkt)
India Vs South Africa at Chepauk, Chennai, 2007-08
*** T Samaraweera (204 with Sangakkara, 4th wkt) and (207 with TM Dilshan, 5th wkt)
Sri Lanka Vs Pakistan at Lahore, 2008-09
*** V Sehwag (221 with M Vijay, 1st wkt) and (237 with RS Dravid, 2nd wkt)
India Vs Sri Lanka at Brabourne stadium, Mumbai, 2009-10

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Most runs in a day by batsman

Virender Sehwag batted magnificently against Sri Lanka on Thursday at the Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai during the 3rd test and scored 284 runs. This is the highest runs by any Indian batsmen in a single day of the test match. However first three position and 4 of the top-five position occupied by Sehwag himself.
This is the 3rd highest score by a batsman in the test history with Sir Don Bradman is on top with 309 runs on the first day of the Leeds test between Australia and England in 1930.

Most Runs in a day in history

309, Don Bradman, Australia Vs England, Leeds, 1930 (1st day)
295, WR Hammond, England Vs New Zealand, Auckland, 1932-33 (2nd day)
284, Virender Sehwag, India Vs Sri Lanka, Brabourne, 2009-10 (2nd day)
273, DS Compton, England Vs Pakistan, Trent Bridge, 1954 (2nd day)
271, Don Bradman, Australia Vs England, Leeds, 1934 (2nd day)
257, Virender Sehwag, India Vs South Africa, Chepauk, 2007-08 (3rd day)

Virender Sehwag also scored 133 runs during the last session (Tea to Close of play) this is a new Indian record. Here is the list.


Most runs in a session for India

133, Tea to Close, V Sehwag, Vs Sri Lanka, Brabourne, 2009-10
121, Tea to Close, VVS Laxman, VS Australia, Sydney, 1999-00
109, Lunch to Tea, V Sehwag, Vs Pakistan, Lahore, 2005-06
108, Lunch to Tea, V Sehwag, Vs South Africa, Chepauk, 2007-08
103, Lunch to Tea, M Azharuddin, Vs Eng;and, Manchester, 1990
102, Tea to Close, Yuvraj Singh, Vs Pakistan, Bangalore, 2007-08

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Angelo Mathews: RUN OUT on 99

Sri Lanka batsman Angelo Mathews will consider him as an unlucky man in the world as he missed his maiden hundred by some inches or centimeter against India at the Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai on Thursday during the 3rd test of the series.
However he is not the first one to do so there are 13 other batsmen who were run out at the score of 99. Australia’s Bill Brown was the first to be out on 99 in this fashion when he ran out against India at Melbourne in 1947-48.
Mathews became the second Sri Lankan to run out on 99. His former captain Mahela Jayawardene was out on 99 against West Indies at Galle in 2001-02 when Marlon Samuels’s direct throw prevent him to complete his century.
Pakistan’s former captain Younis Khan is the only batsman to be run out on 199 and missed the double century but The great Don Bradman may be the unluckiest among all of them as he missed a triple hundred only because his partner run out. During the 4th test of the 1931-32 series against South Africa at Adelaide Don Bradman was on 299 and his partner Pud Thurlow ran out. Interestingly that was Thurlow’s only innings in test cricket.

Here is the list of the batsmen run out on 99 in test cricket.

Bill Brown Australia Vs India, Melbourne, 1947-48
AR Morris, Australia Vs South Africa, Melbourne, 1952-53
JEF Beck New Zealand Vs South Africa, Cape Town, 1953-54
RB Kanhai West Indies Vs India, Chennai (Corporation), 1958-59
ML Jaisimha India Vs Pakistan, Kanpur, 1960-61
MJK Smith England Vs Pakistan, Lahore, 1961-62
Mushtaq Mohammad Pakistan Vs England, Karachi, 1972-73
Graham Gooch England Vs Australia, Melbourne, 1979-80
Deepak Patel New Zealand Vs England, Christchurch, 1991-92
MA Atherton England Vs Australia, Lord’s, 1993
Mahela Jayawardene Sri Lanka Vs West Indies, Galle, 2001-02
JH Kallis South Africa Vs Australia, Melbourne, 2001-02
ND McKenzie South Africa Vs Australia, Cape Town, 2001-02

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Adrian Barath: Youngest Centurion and also on debut

West Indian debutant Adrian Barath have made memorable appearance in test cricket with a brilliant hundred against Australia at Brisbane on Saturday. Although his 132-ball 104 may not save West Indies losing the first test of the series but his effort will be remembered for long time.
Barath, 19 years and 228 day, becomes the youngest centurion for the Caribbean and break the 79 year old record set by The Black Bradman George Headley on 15 January 1930 at Bridgetown against England by scoring 176 at the age of 20 years & 230 days.
No one from West Indies scored a hundred below the age of 20. Thus Barath became the youngest of all of them.
With this century he became 85th in test history and 12th West Indian to do so on debut test match. George Headley was the first batsman from West Indies to score a hundred on debut. The others are.
AG Ganteaume (only test) 112, Vs England, Port of Spain, 1947-48
BH Pairaudeau 115, VS India, Port of Spain, 1952-53
DG Smith, 104, Vs Australia, Kingston, 1954-55
CC Hunte, 142, VS Pakistan, Bridgetown, 1957-58
Lawrence Rowe, 214 &100*, Vs New Zealand, Kingston, 1971-72
Alvin Kallicharan, 100*, Vs New Zealand, Georgetown, 1971-72
Gordon Greenidge, 107, Vs India, Bangalore, 1974-75
L Baichan, 105*, Vs Pakistan, Lahore, 1974-75
AB Williams, 100, Vs Australia, Georgetown, 1977-78
DR Smith, 105*, VS South Africa, Cape Town, 2003-04

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Century of Victory for India

With an Innings & 144 runs win over Sri Lanka at Kanpur on Friday India completed century of victory in test history. Thus India became the 6th Nations to win more then 100 test.
The others are :
Australia 332 ( 713 test)
England 310 (891)
West Indies 152 (459)
South Africa 120 (344)
Pakistan 103 (340)
India 100 (432)

India’s performance against each team

Opponents, Match, won, lost, drawn, tied
Australia, 76, 18, 34, 23, 1
Bangladesh 5, 4, 0, 1, 0
England 99, 19, 34, 46, 0
New Zeland 47, 15, 9, 23, 0
Pakistan 59, 9, 12, 38, 0
South Africa 22, 5, 10, 7, 0
Sri Lanka 31, 12, 5, 14, 0
West Indies 82, 11, 30, 41, 0
Zimbabwe 11, 7, 2, 2, 0

This was 26th innings victory for India in Test career and 7th against Sri Lanka.The biggest win for India at home is an innings & 219 runs against Australia at Kolkata in 1997-98 while they beat Bangladesh by an innings & 239 runs at Mirpur in 2007.
India have won 18 times by an innings margin at home so far.

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100 by TOP three batsmen in an innings

Gautam Gambhir (167), Virender Sehwag (131) and Rahul
Dravid (144) - the top three players for India have registered
Centuries at Kanpur against Sri Lanka in the second test, providing the third instance when No 1, 2 and 3 have posted centuries in the same innings for India, equalling
Australia's tally of three such instances.
Against Bangladesh in the 2007 Mirpur Test, the top
four Indian batsmen had made centuries - Dinesh Karthik (129),
Wasim Jaffer (138 not out), Rahul Dravid (129) and Sachin
Tendulkar (122 not out). The said instance is the only one in
Test annals when the top four batsmen have made centuries in
the same Test innings.

Here is the list of all instances when top three or four batsmen have made hundred in a same test innings.
England Vs S Africa at Lord’s 1924
Jack Hobbs 211, Herbert Sutcliff (122) and Frenk Woolley (134*)
Australia Vs West Indies at Port of Spain 1954-55
CC McDonald (110), Arthur Morris (111) and Neil Harvey (133)
Australia Vs West Indies at Bridgetown 1964-65
Bill Lawary (210), Bob Simpson (201) and Bob Cowper (102)
India Vs Australia at Sydney 1985-86
Sunil Gavaskar (172), K Srikkanth (116) and Mohinder Amarnath (138)
Australia Vs England at Lord’s 1993
Mark Taylor (111), Michael Slater (152) and David Boon (164*)
South Africa Vs Zimbabwe at Harare 2001-02
HH Gibbs (147), Gary Kirsten (220) and JH Kallis (157*)
New Zealand Vs India at Mohali 2003-04
Mark Richardon (145), Lou Vincent (106) and Scott Styris (119)
India Vs Bangladesh at Mirpur 2007
Dinesh Karthik (129), Wasim Jaffer (138*), Rahul Dravid (129) and Sachin
Tendulkar (122*).
South Africa Vs England at Lord’s 2008
Greame Smith (107), Neil McKenzie (138) and Hashim Amla (104*)
India Vs Sri Lanka at Kanpur 2009-10
Gautam Gambhir (167), Virender Sehwag (131) and Rahul Dravid (144).

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Daniel Vettori in 99 club

New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori dismissed on 99 against Pakistan on Wednesday during the first cricket test ad Dunedin. He becomes the 8th batsmen in nine instances for New Zealand to become the victim of 99.
JEF Back (Vs South Africa, 1953-54), Richard Hadlee (Vs England, 1983-84), Deepak Patel (Vs England, 1991-92), John Wright (Vs Australia, 1987-88 & Vs England, 1991-92), Stephen Fleming (Vs South Africa, 2000-01), Mark Richardson (Vs Zimbabwe, 2000-01) and Brendon McCullum (Vs Sri Lanka, 2004-05) and are the others to do so for New Zealand.
This was the 77th instance when a batsman scored 99 in test history. There are 8 batsmen who have done this twice in their career and 5 of them remained not out on 99. There are also 13 batsmen who have run out on 99.

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BULK of records at Kanpur

With Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir posted brilliant centuries India cruised to a mammoth score of 417 for 2 wickets at the Green Park stadium, Kanpur on Tuesday against Sri Lanka in the second cricket test. The day completely dominated by the Indians.
In the process India created some interesting records.
417 runs are the highest score by Indian team on day one of any test match and also highest total for any day of the test match.
In the previous test at Ahmedabad India posted 6 for 385 on the first day now India overtook that score.
List of most runs on a first day of a test (India).

2/417, Vs Sri Lanka, Kanpur, 2009-10
6/385, Vs Sri Lanka, Ahmedabad, 2009-10
9/375, Vs New Zealand, Wellington, 2008-09
7/372, Vs South Africa, Bloemfontein, 2001-02
6/365, Vs Pakistan, Bangalore, 2007-08

Most runs in any day of a test (India)

2/417, 1st day, Vs Sri Lanka, Kanpur, 2009-10
1/386, 2nd day, Vs South Africa, Chepauk, 2007-08
6/385, 1st day, Vs Sri Lanka, Ahmedabad, 2009-10
378, 2nd day, Vs England, The Oval, 1936
9/375, 1st day, Vs New Zealand, Wellington, 2008-09

This was the 6th occasion when both openers scored hundred in the same innings for India.
The list is here.
Vijay Merchant (114) & S Mushtaq Ali (112) Vs England, Manchester, 1936
Vinoo Mankad (231) & Pankaj Roy (173) Vs New Zealand, Chennai, 1955-56
Sunil Gavaskar (172) & K Srikkanth (116) Vs Australia, Sydney, 1985-86
V Sehwag (254) & Rahul Dravid (128*), Vs Pakistan, Lahore, 2005-06
Dinesh Karthik (129) & Wasim Jaffer (138*) Vs Bangladesh, Mirpur, 2007


4 consecutive hundred by Gautam Gambhir

With the century at Kanpur Gautam Gambhir became only 3rd batsmen for India to have scored 4 consecutive 100 in test matches.
Gambhir score 137 at Napier and 167 at Wellington when India toured New Zealand in March-April this year and after that he scored 114 at Ahmedabad last week. Now he has scored 167 at Kanpur. Only Sunil Gavaskar and Rahul Dravid have done it before Gambhir. Gavaskar scored 108 against England at The Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai in 1976-77 and then went on to score 113 at Brisbane, 127 at Perth and 118 at Melbourne against Australia in 1977-78 series down under.
Rahul Dravid scored 115 at Trent Bridge, 148 at Leeds and 217 at The Oval in 2002 and then 100* at The Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai against West Indies in October 2002.


Partnership for the first wicket

Sehwag and Gambhir have put on 233 runs for the first wicket in this match. This is the 3rd best first wicket partnership for India. Vinoo Mankad and Pankaj Roy have added 413 runs against New Zealand at Chennai in 1955-56 and Sehwag and Dravid have put on 410 against Pakistan at Lahore in 2005-06.

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ONLY FIVE WIN AT KANPUR

India and Sri Lanka will play second test match of the series at the Green Park, Kanpur from tomorrow and both will try to win this match to get lead in the series. India’s record in Kanpur is not too bright with the fact take into consideration that the home team playing here since 1951-52 and were able to win only five test matches here.
India lost to England in 1951-52 (the series when India won the test first time in the history) at Kanpur by playing first time here. First time India won here in 1959-60 when Jasu Patel scalped 14 wickets in a match against Richie Benaud’s Australian team.
In all Indian team has played 20 test matches at the Green Park, Kanpur but managed to win only five of them and lost 3 of them.
However since 1983-84 India never lost a test at Kanpur in 6 matches they have won 3 and all other matches ended in a draw.
*** This will be the 1934th test in the history
*** This will be India’s 432nd and Sri Lanka’s 191st test match.
*** India has won 99 and lost 126 test so far while Sri Lanka has won 60 and lost 67 so far.



Venue records

Highest total
7/676 by India Vs Sri Lanka in 1986-87

Lowest total
121 by South Africa Vs India in 2007-08
Highest score
250 by SFAF Bachus West India Vs India 1978-79
For India: 199 by M Azharuddin, Vs Sri Lanka 1986-87

Most runs
776 by GR Viswanath in 7 matches, 12 innings, 176 Hs, 86.22 Avg., 3x100, 4x50

Best bowling in an innings
9 for 69 by Jasu Patel India Vs Australia, 1959-60

Best bowling in a match
14 for 124 by Jasu Patel India Vs Australia, 1959-60

Most wickets
25 by Kapil Dev in 7 matches.

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Dravid: Only second nervous nineties in Ranji

Mr. Wall Rahul Dravid has been out for 15 times into nervous nineties in his entire first class career but only twice in Ranji Trophy and first time since 1997. On Tuesday Dravid out on 97 against Uttar Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy match for Karnataka at Meerut.
This has happened for him exactly after 12 years. Earlier he scored 99 runs for Karnataka against Hyderabad in November 1997. However he failed to convert 100 for 10 times after reaching 90s in test cricket.
Dravid’s first nervous ninety was in October 1993 when he was out on 93 for Rest of India against then Ranji champions Punjab.
He has been twice done it for Kent in English county season 2000. Interestingly both time against Somerset and both time in June 2000.
Rahul Dravid in nervous nineties.
93 Rest of India Vs Punjab, 1993-94
95 India Vs England, 1996 (debut)
92 India Vs West Indies, 1997
99 Karnataka Vs Hyderabad, 1997-98
92 India Vs Sri Lanka, 1997-98
93 India Vs Sri Lanka, 1997-98
90 Kent Vs Somerset, 2000
95 Kent Vs Somerset, 2000
91 India Vs West Indies, 2002
92 India Vs Australia, 2003-04
91* India Vs Australia, 2003-04
98 India Vs Zimbabwe, 2005-06
95 India Vs England, 2005-06
93 India Vs Australia, 2007-08
97 Karnataka Vs Uttar Pradesh, 2009-10

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Harbhajan : Most ODI for 1000 runs

Harbhajan Singh’s heroics went in vain in Vadodara but during his innings of 49 off 31 balls he completed 1000 runs in his 11 years long ODI career and he had taken 196 matches to do so. The longest period for any one to complete 1000 runs in the history of ODI. Australia’s former leg spinner Shane Warne holds the record till Vadodara match as he had done it in 191 One Day Internationals.
There are 10 batsmen in the history who have taken 100 or more matches to reach 1000 run mark, mostly bowlers, but most notable name in this list is Nayan Mongia. Former India stumper Mongia took 113 matches to reach four figure mark in the career. When he completes it on 31 October 1998, the year Harbhajan Singh began his ODI career. Former Australian wicketkeeper Ian Healy also took 110 matches to do so.
Pakistan all rounder Wasim Akram and wicketkeeper Rashid Latif also figures in the following list.
Here is the list of the players who have taken most matches to complete 1000 runs in ODI career.
(Player, team, match)
Harbhajan Singh, India, 196
Shane Warne, Australia, 191
Daniel Vettori, New Zealand, 171
Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lanka, 164
Ajit Agarkar, India, 131
Wasim Akram, Pakistan, 126
Rashid Latif, Pakistan, 116
Kumar Dharmasena, Sri Lanka, 115
Nayan Mongia, India, 113
Ian Healy, Australia, 110

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100th ODI between India and Australia

3rd One Day International
31 October 2009
At Firozshah Kotla ground, Delhi

*** This will be the 724th ODI for India and 723rd for Australia.
*** This will be the 100th ODI between India and Australia. 33 have been won by India and 58 by Australia.
*** Both teams have played 39 ODI in India and the visitor has won 20 of them.
*** Ponting requires 70 runs to become highest run scorer non Indian on Indian soil. Sri Lanka’s Arvinda de Silva had scored 1438 runs in 37 ODI while Ponting has score 1368 runs in 37 ODI on Indian soil.
*** Sachin Tendulkar scored 16903 ODI runs so far so he needs another 79 runs to become the first player to complete 17000 runs in the history of One Day International.
*** This will be the 13th match for India at Delhi they won 7 and lost 5 of them. Australia has played 4 ODI here and won 2 of them.
*** This will be the first Day night at Ferozshah Kotla ground.


Day-Night match record

*** This will be the 45th Day night match between India and Australia. India won 15 and lost 25 of them while 4 ended in no result.
*** Both teams have played 13 day night games on Indian soil and both teams have won 6 games each.
*** This will be the 92nd day night match on Indian soil. India has played 58 and won 32 of those.
*** There have been 942 day night matches played so far in the history of ODI. Australia has played 323 of them with 204-win, 105-loss record.
*** India has played 242 such games with 113-win, 112-loss record.

Venue Record (at Ferozshah Kotla)

Highest Total
India: 3/289 Vs New Zealand on 3-11-1994
Australia: 3/294 Vs Zimbabwe on 11-4-1998
Lowest Total: (completed innings)
India: 144 Vs Pakistan on 17-4-2005
Highest score:
145 by Ricky Ponting Australia Vs Zimbabwe on 11-4-1998
India: 137 by Sachin Tendulkar Vs Sri Lanka on 2-3-1996
Best Bowling
6 for 41 by Vivian Richards WI Vs India on 23-10-1989
India: 5 for 31 by Harbhajan Singh India Vs England on 28-03-2006

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The record gone unnoticed

India won by 99 runs against Australia on Wednesday at Nagpur. Dhoni scored highest run in an innings as captain against Oz, India posted highest total in an ODI vs Australia, India posted its 350th victory in ODI and so many others records noticed but another feat achieved by India captain MS Dhoni and that he completed 2000 runs in Day Night matches.
During his innings of 12 runs when Dhoni reached 65 he completed 2000 runs in Day night ODI while representing India however he completed 2000 runs in overall Day Night career well before this match as he also played for Asian Xi against African XI. Thus he became only 7th Indian batsmen to do so. As ever Sachin Tendulkar is on top with 7407 runs in 179 match played under the flood Light. There are 13 Indians who have scored 1000 or more runs in Day Night matches and 7 of them scored 2000 or more. However only Sachin crossed 5000-mark while Rahul Dravid stood second with 4767 runs in 144 matches and 134 innings.
Nagpur encounter was Dhoni’s 72nd ODI under the lights for India and so far he has scored 2059 runs in 62 innings @44.76 with TWO hundreds and 15 half centuries.
There are 152 players have reached 2000 run-mark in the history and only 47 of them are able to do it in Day Night affairs.
Here is the list of Indians who have scored more then 2000 runs in Day Night career.
7407 by Sachin Tendulkar, 179 matches, 175 innings.
4767 by Rahul Dravid, 144 matches, 134 innings.
4516 by Sourav Ganguly, 134 matches, 129 innings.
3788 by Virender Sehwag, 112 matches, 111 innings.
3251 by Yuvraj Singh, 121 matches, 114 innings.
2259 by M Azharuddin, 82 matches, 78 innings.

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Highest ODI score Vs Australia by captain

India captain MS Dhoni scored masterful 124 against Australia in Nagpur Day-Nighter on Wednesday and become highest run scorer captain against Australia in the ODI history. Sanath Jayasuriya scored 122 at Sydney on 9 January 2003 when he led Sri Lanka in the VB series.
This was the 10th century against Australia by any captain. New Zealand former skipper Stephen Fleming had hit two hundred against the Oz.
The list of all hundred by captain against Australia.
Read as : Captain, score, team, at, on.
Clive Lloyd (102) West Indies, Lord’s, 21-6-1975
David Gower (102) England, Lord’s, 3-6-1985
Martin Crowe (100*) New Zealand, Auckland, 22-2-1992
Mike Atherton (113*) England, The Oval, 24-5-1997
Stephen Fleming (116*) New Zealand, Melbourne, 21-1-1998
Stephen Fleming (111*) New Zealand, Napier, 12-2-1998
Alistair Campbell (102) Zimbabwe, Ahmedabad, 3-4-1998
Sanath Jayasuriya (122), Sri Lanka, Sydney, 9-1-2003
Graeme Smith (119*), South Africa, Centurion Park, 26-2-2006

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India misses Dravid at Nagpur

Not because Indian middle order failed at Vadodara or not because some of the players are injured but because of tradition India will miss the service of The Wall Rahul Dravid at Nagpur when they will play against Australia on Wednesday in the second ODI of the series. Since his debut Rahul Dravid never miss any match here in his in-laws city.
Rahul Dravid made his test debut in 1996 and played his first test at Nagpur in 1997-98 against Sri Lanka in which he scored 92 runs. Since then Nagpur hosted 5 test matches and Dravid played in all of them with an impressive average of 64.71. He has scored 453 runs with one hundred and 3 fifties.
Nagpur’s VCA stadium witnessed 6 ODI matches since Dravid made his international entry and The Bangalorian played all those six ODIs and scored 392 runs @98.00 and with the strike rate of 115.29. He has scored 116 against Sri Lanka in March 1999 and then 4 consecutive half centuries before out for only 7 against Australia on 14 October two years back.
Here is the detailed performance of Rahul Dravid at Nagpur.

In One Day International

116 Vs Sri Lanka 22 March 1999 (India won)
79 Vs South Africa 19 March 2000 (India lost)
51 Vs West Indies 9 November 2002 (India lost)
85* Vs Sri Lanka 20 October 2005 (India won)
54* Vs West Indies 21 January 2007 (India won)
7 Vs Australia 14 October 2007 (India lost)

6 Match, 6 Innings, 2 Not out, 392 Runs, 98.00 Average, 116 Highest, ONE hundred, 2 half centuries, 115.29 Strike rate.

In Test matches

92 Vs Sri Lanka 1997-98 (Drawn)
162 Vs Zimbabwe 2000-01 (Drawn)
65 Vs Zimbabwe 2001-02 (India won)
21 & 2 Vs Australia 2004-05 (India lost)
40 & 71 Vs England 2005-06 (Drawn)

5 Match, 7 Innings, 0 Not out, 453 Runs, 64.71 Average, 162 Highest, ONE hundred, 3 Half Centuries.

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India- Australia will clash at Nagpur

2nd One Day International
28 October 2009
At VCA Stadium, Nagpur

*** This will be the 723rd ODI for India and 722nd for Australia.
*** India needs one more victory to reach 350th win in ODI history. Only Australia (444) and Pakistan (381) has won more matches then India.
*** This will be the 99th ODI between India and Australia. 32 have been won by India and 58 by Australia.
*** Both teams have played 38 ODI in India and the visitor has won 20 of them. Last time both played at Vadodara on Sunday which was won by Australia by runs. Before that match Australia twice beat India by ONE run and both time in the World Cup. First time at Chepauk in 1987-88 and then at Brisbane in 1991-92.
*** Ponting requires 82 runs to become highest run scorer non Indian on Indian soil. Sri Lanka’s Arvinda de Silva had scored 1438 runs in 37 ODI while Ponting has score 1356 runs in 50 ODI on Indian soil.
*** Sachin Tendulkar scored 16903 ODI runs so far so he needs another 83 runs to become the first player to complete 17000 runs in the history of One Day International.

Day-Night match record

*** This will be the 44th Day night match between India and Australia. India won 14 and lost 25 of them while 4 ended in no result.
*** Both teams have played 12 day night games on Indian soil and the visitors has won 6 of them.
*** This will be the 91st day night match on Indian soil. The home team has won 31 of the 57 they played.
*** There have been 939 day night matches so far in the history of ODI. Australia has played 322 of them with 204-win, 104-loss record.
*** India has played 241 such games with 112-win, 112-loss record.

Venue Record (in Nagpur both grounds)

Highest Total
India: 6/350 Vs Sri Lanka on 25-10-2005
Australia: 8/317 Vs India on 14/10/2007
Lowest Total: (completed innings)
India: 193 Vs West Indies on 8/12/1987
Highest score:
149* by S Chanderpaul WI Vs India on 21/01/2007
India: 130* by Sourav Ganguly Vs Sri Lanka on 22/03/1999
Australia: 102* A Symonds Vs India on 14/10/2007
Best Bowling
8 for 29 by Patrik Patterson WI Vs India on 8/12/1987
India: 4 for 21 by Sourav Ganguly Vs Sri Lanka on 22/03/1999
Australia: 4 for 34 by Shane Warne Vs Zimbabwe on 1/3/1996

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1000 runs in Calender year

Australia’s captain Ricky Ponting completed 1000 runs in the calender year2009 when he reached 69 against India on Sunday at the Reliance stadium, Vadodara. This is the 6th time when Ponting scored 1000 or more runs in a calender year. He is the first player to score 1000 runs in 2009.
However man in form Hamilton Masakadza of Zimbabwe is very much behind him with 936 runs in 20 matches. Ricky Ponting complete 1000 runs in 23 ODI with TWO hundreds and 7 half centuries.
Earlier Ponting scored 1000 or more runs in 1998 (1166 runs), 1999 (1038), 2003 (1154), 2005 (1191), 2007 (1424) and now at the end of Sunday innings he scored 1005 runs this year.
Sachin Tendulkar achieved this feat for 7 times and Ricky Ponting has to do it again in the coming years if he wants to surpass Sachin’s record. Sachin achieved this feat in 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004 and 2007.
Sachin Tendulkar also holds the record of most runs in calender year. He had scored 1894 runs in 1998 in 34 ODI with the help of 9 hundreds and 7 half centuries. Sourav Ganguly scored 1767 runs in 1999, the year when he hit 183 during the world cup in England.
After Sachin, Sourav Ganguly and Ricky Ponting scored most time 1000 runs in calender year. Both have done for 6 times.

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India-Australia in ODI

25 October 2009
At Reliance stadium, Vadodara

*** This will be the 722nd ODI for India and 721st for Australia.
*** India needs one more victory to reach 350th win in ODI history. Only Australia (444) and Pakistan (381) has won more matches then India.
*** This will be the 98th ODI between India and Australia. 32 have been won by India and 57 by Australia.
*** Both teams have played 37 ODI in India and the visitor has won 19 of them. Last time both played at Vadodara in October 2007 which was won by Australia.
*** Australia captains Ricky Ponting will play his 50th ODI against India. He will be the second Australian after Steve Waugh (53) to do so.
*** Ponting requires 156 runs to become highest run scorer non Indian on Indian soil. Sri Lanka’s Arvinda de Silva had scored 1438 runs in 37 ODI while Ponting has score 1282 runs in 49 ODI on Indian soil.
*** Sachin Tendulkar scored 16903 ODI runs so far so he needs another 97 runs to become the first player to complete 17000 runs in the history of One Day International.
*** Brett Lee needs only one wicket to complete 50 wickets against India in ODI.
*** James Hopes requires 14 run to reach 1000 run milestone in his ODI career.

India and Australia in ODI.


Highest Total
India: 315 at Bangalore on 25 March 2001
Australia: 2 for 359 at Johannesburg on 23 March 2003
Lowest Total:
India: 63 at Sydney on 8 January 1981
Australia: 101 at Perth on 8 December 1991
Most Runs:
India: 2730 by SR Tendulkar in 61 matches.
Australia: 1778 by RT Ponting in 49 matches.
Most wickets:
India: 45 by Kapil Dev in 41 matches.
Australia: 49 by Brett Lee in 28 matches.
Highest score:
India: 143 by SR Tendulkar at Sharjah on 22 April 1998
Australia: 140 by RT Ponting at Johannesburg on 23 March 2003
Best Bowling
India: 6 for 27 by Murali Kartik Mumbai (Wankhede) on 17 October 2007
Australia: 6 for 39 by KH MacLeay at Trent Bridge on 13 June 1983.

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Lose the toss? No problem at Baroda

As they says toss is very important, toss will be crucial for the match, they wins half of the match after won the toss but so far Vadodara (Baroda) is concerned if the captain lose the toss his team’s chance to win the match will be brighter.
There are 8 ODIs played at IPCL (now reliance) ground in Vadodara and 6 of them won by the team who lost the toss. India is very lucky (?) of them all as India won all the 6 matches here after losing the toss.
Last time here in October 2007 India captain MS Dhoni won the toss against Australia but lost the match by 9 wickets. So any captain will not be too much enthusiastic to win the toss here.
However in the ODI history only four teams have won more matches after losing the toss then won after winning the toss. South Africa has upper hand as they won 61.61% matches after losing the toss. They have won 130 ODI of the 211 in which they lost the toss while Australia have won 217 matches (61.13%) when they lost the toss among the 355 ODIs. Pakistan played 342 such matches with the winning percentage of 53.51 and West Indies has won 174 matches (52.10%) of the 334 in which they lost the toss.
And now in India…
Australia has played 63 ODI on Indian soil and they won 66.67% matches after losing the toss. As they lost the toss for 27 times and won 18 of those matches. While 117 times India lost the toss at home and won 63 (53.85%) such matches.

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Stranded by a whisker

Batsmen are always in pressure when he was nearing a milestone and particularly when on 99. The history proves it as there are 13 batsmen were run out on 99 in test cricket and as many as 5 players remained not out when they needed a single to reach 100 and there are 8 to do so in ODI.
England’s Alex Tudor is one of them and interestingly he never scored a ton after that 99 not out against New Zealand at Edgebaston in 1999. Born on 23 October 1977 Alex Tudor was on 99 when England achieved the target of 211 runs and won the match by 7 wickets against New Zealand.
This reminds me some interesting instances when a batsman stranded by a whisker. Sir Australia’s Pud Thurlow played only one test and came back without any run or any wicket but he was run out when his partner was approaching for triple hundred and he was non other then the SIR of all Donald George Bradman. During a test at Adelaide in 1931-32 series against South Africa Australia lost 9th wicket at 499. Don Bradman and Thurlow added 14 runs for the last wicket but then Thurlow ran himself out when Bradman was on 299.
Pakistan’s Asim Kamal and Australia’s Arthur Chipperfield are the only players who scored 99 on their debut.
An outstanding opening batsman and excellent fieldsman for on either side of the Second World War Australia’s Bill Brown was the first batsman to run out on 99 and that happened against India at Melbourne in 1947-48.
The most recent 99 run out case was of ND McKenzie of South Africa against Australia at Cape Town in 2001-02. It was the same season when JH Kallis ran out on 99 against Australia at MCG and Mahela Jayawardene did it at Galle against West Indies.

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Century on birthday

Australia have some excellent wins behind them while coming into the one-day series against India but Australian captain Ricky Ponting and all other players still fears about Sachin Tendulkar.
Sachin Tendulkar always played excellent cricket against Oz and this time around he is the most dangerous player. It recalls those two knocks of the master blaster at Sharjah when we talk about Sachin and Australia. It has been 11 years gone but still it refreshes our mind. I was just thinking about that 134 Sachin hit at Sharjah on his 25th birthday in 1998.
Century on birthday is not too often happened in cricket and particularly in ODI as there are only 3 batsmen have done. Sachin scored 134 at Sharjah on 24 April 1998 but before that his best friend Vinod Kambli scored an unbeaten 100 at Jaipur against England on 18 January 1993.
However the only other batsman to hit a ton on the birthday is Sanath Jayasuriya and he has done this on his 39th birthday in 2008. Jayasuriya scored masterful 130 against Bangladesh at Karachi on 30 June 2008 during the Asia Cup.
There are 9 batsmen scored hundred on their respective birthday in test cricket history. Here is the list.
RG Pollock (23rd birthday) 105, S Africa Vs Australia, 27-2-1967, Port Elizabeth.
CC Lewis (25) 117, England Vs India, 14-2-93, Chepauk.
RR Sarwan (26) 116, WI Vs India, 23-6-2006, Bessetere.
BL Irvin (26) 102, S Africa Vs Australia, 9-3-1970, Port Elizabeth.
PE Richardson (26) 126, England Vs WI, 4-7-1957, Trent Bridge.
Imran Khan (28) 123, Pakistan Vs WI, 25-11-1980, Lahore.
AC Hudson (29) 102, S AfricaVs Australia, 17-3-94, Cape Town.
RT Simson (31) 156*, England Vs Australia, 27-2-1951, Melbourne.
AJ Stewart (31) 118, England Vs WI, 8-4-94, Bridgetown.

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ALL OUT for 30

On his return to the official fold, former ICL player Mihir Diwakar returned remarkable figures of 3.1-2-6-5 as Jharkhand entered the Twenty20 record books by bowling out the rival Tripura for mere 30 runs. This is the lowest Twenty20 score ever recorded
The previous lowest score was 47 by the Titans' 47 against the Eagles in South Africa in 2003-04. No one from Tripura able to score in double figures. The highest score was 8 by Subal Chowdhury off 10 balls. Tripura were all out in just 11.1 overs and 50 minutes.
Jharkhand captain Surabh Tiwary scored 22 off only 14 balls with the help of 5 fours as his team reached the target in just 3.2 overs and 14 minutes. Another world record of most balls to spare for achieving the target.
Mumbai beat Kolkata by 8 wickets on 18 May 2008 at Mumbai with 87 balls to spare.

Here is the list of the lowest total in Twenty20.
30 by Tripura Vs Jharkhand, Dhanbad, 20-10-2009
47 by Titans Vs Egales, Centurion, 28 April 2004
58 by Rajsthan Vs Bangalore, Cape Town, 18 April 2009
59 by SL Army Vs Sinhalese, Colombo CCC, 2 March 2007

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MOST FAMOUS DELIVERY in CRICKET

So many times we hear about that UNDERARM DELIVERY bowled in the history of Gentlemen’s game. One can easily recall the underarm ball bowled by Trevor Chappell for Australia against New Zealand at the famous Melbourne Cricket Ground on 1st February 1981. Today I just recollect my memory as I was digging some pages from my history book and 21 October is the birthday of Trevor Chappell.
Trevor was also fine batsman like his elder brothers Ian and Greg and he was also a part time bowler. He had bowled 736 deliveries in ODI and only one of those was underarm but the cricket world remembers only this one.
I was following that series and still remember because India were the 3rd team in Benson and Hedges cup (though could not make to the final). So the host Australia and New Zealand played the series of 5 finals and that was the third final.
New Zealand needed 6 runs off the last ball and the bowler was Trevor. The Australian captain Greg Chappell went to the bowler, Trevor-who also happened to be his brother, and asked him to bowl an under-arm delivery so that there is absolutely no chance for the No. 10 kiwi batsman Brian McKechine to hit a six.
The ball went all along the ground - from the bowling end to the striking end and Brain Mckechine just played it before throwing his bat and moved out of the ground. Not only the batsman but surprisingly the wicketkeeper Rodney Marsh, the Australian, looked very disappointed with his captain’s decision.

Test and ODI Cricketer born on 21 October

G Ulyett (1851)
RH Spooner (1880)
PGV van der Bijl (1907)
JM Parks (1931)
Geoff Boycott (1940)
Damien Martyn (1971)
Sarandeep Singh (1979)
Devon Smith (1981)
Tinashe Panyangara (1985)

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150 plus twice in the same series

Zimbabwe’s Hamilton Masakadza score 184* runs against Kenya at Harare in the 5th match of the current ODI series between the two on 18 October. Thus he became the only player in the history of the ODIs to score 150 plus score twice in the same series. He remained unbeaten on 184 off 168 balls with the help of 17 fours and 5 sixes.
Masakadza had scored 156 in the first match of the series on 12 October.
Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Matthew Hayden, Sanath Jayasuriya, Vivian Richards, Chris Gayle, Adam Gilchrist, Herschelle Gibbs, Brian Lara and Andrew Symonds have scored 150 plus score for more then once in their respective ODI career but no one from them has scored 150 plus twice in the same series.
Only Sanath Jayasuriya is close to Masakadza as he had scored two 150 plus score in a span of 3 days but not in the same series. Sri Lankan opener scored 152 on first July 2006 against England at Leeds during Netwest series and then went on to score 157 against Netherlands at Amstelveen on 4 July 2006. However it was different series.

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60.33 Average: The best for India

60.33 Average in test cricket is still the best for India as no one reach this mark since 1950s. Born on 18 October 1928 Deepak Shodhan’s case is one of the most baffling in the history of Indian cricket. An attractive left-hand batsman, he made a memorable debut against Pakistan in the fifth Test at Calcutta in 1952-53. Coming in at No 8, with the total 179 for 6, he propped up the latter half of the order so effectively that India ultimately reached 397. Shodhan was last out for 110, becoming the first player to score a hundred in the first innings of his first Test for India.
Deepak Shodhan, also know as Roshan, was immediately hailed as a bright new star on the Indian batting horizon and on the tour of West Indies which followed immediately he got 45 and 11 in the first Test at Port-of-Spain. Injuries however kept him out of the next three Tests and when brought back for the final Test, he was taken ill on the first day and could not bat in the first innings and then went onto score 15 not out in the second innings of the match.
At the end of the tour Shodhan had scored 181 runs in three Tests at an average of 60.33. Astonishingly, that remained the extent of his Test career for he was never again picked to play for the country.
However, he continued to play in the Ranji Trophy and Indian first class cricket and had a record of 1802 runs (31.61) and 73 wickets (34.05) with his left-arm medium pacers in first class career.
Deepak Shodhan played for Gujarat, Baroda, West Zone and Indian Universities. He was born and brought up in Ahmedabad, spent his whole life in Ahmedabad and even today he resides in Ahmedabad with his elder brother Jyotindra Shodhan, also first class cricketer and former captained of Gujarat Ranji team, Deepak Shodhan highest score in Ranji Trophy is not for Gujarat but for Baroda. He scored 261 for Baroda against Maharashtra at Wadia Park, Ahmednagar in 1957-58, the season when Baroda won the Ranji Trophy under the leadership of DK Gaekwad.

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Fastest Fifties and 100 Partnerships in T20

New South Wales and Trinidad & Tobago match of the Champions League witnessed two records on Friday. Phil Hughes and David Warner added 121 runs for the first wicket and Kieron Pollard smashed half century off only 18 balls.
100 runs partnership is very rare in this form of cricket as the batsmen have little chance to set on the wicket of have not too much time to add 100 runs with any partner.
But the fact is this was the 75th partnership of over 100 runs for the first wicket in T20 cricket. The best of all is 175 runs between Vikram Solanki and Graeme Hick for Worcestershire Vs Northamptonshire at Kidderminster on 29 June 2007. There are 7 partnership of over 150 runs in T20 cricket.
Kieron Pollard has hit his half century off only 18 balls but still it is not the world record. He is at No. 11 in the list of fastest half century in T20. India’s Yuvraj Singh is on top of the list with the fifty off only 12 balls, thanks to six sixes off Stuart Broad, against England at Durban on 19 September 2007.
Here is the list of fastest fifties in T20.
Yuvraj Singh (12 balls), India Vs England, Durban, 19-9-2007. Imran Nazir (14), Sialkot Vs Lahore Egales, Lahore, 26-4-2005. GL Brophy (14), Yorkshire Vs Derbyshire, Derby, 10-7-2006. MJ Guptil (15), Auckland Vs Central District, New Playmouth, 30-1-2008. Ross Taylor (16), Cenral District Vs Otago, Dunedin, 27-1-2006. Adam Gilchrist (17), Hyderabad Vs Delhi, Centurion, 22-5-2009. L Vincent (17), Auckland Vs Central District, Newplaymouth, 30-1-2008. Imran Nazir (17), Sialkot Stallions Vs Lahore Lions, Lahore, 29-5-2009. A Symonds (18), Kent Vs Middlesex, Maidstone, 2-7-2004. BB McCullum (18), Auckland Vs Canterbury, Auckland, 5-2-2006. LJ Vivian (18), Auckland Vs Central District, New Playmouth, 6-2-2009. Kieron Pollard (18), Trinidad & Tobago Vs NSW, Hyderabad, 16-10-2009.

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All Important single wicket in test career

Sir Donald Bradman needed only four runs to achieve his test career average to 100 per innings but Eric Hollies bowled him and prevent him to score those important four runs.
This considers the most important and most memorable wicket in the history.
Recently I dug up list of those batsmen who scored more then 5000 runs and have taken one or two wicket in their career but how important that single wicket.
It was India-Pakistan test match at Faisalabad when Sunil Gavaskar took the only wicket of his entire test career but that was Zaheer Abbas’ wicket. The match began on 16 October 1978 and Pakistan was in very strong position. After scoring 176 in the first innings Zaheer was nearing another one in the second innings and captain Bishensingh Bedi handed over the bowl to Sunil Gavaskar and he got the rid of the great Pakistan batsman. Zaheer was caught by Chetan Chauhan on 96 and missed the ton by 4 runs.
That was the only chance for Zaheer Abbas to score hundred in both innings of a test as he has done it five times in first class cricket.
England’s David Gower also taken only one wicket in his 117-match career and the victim was Kapil Dev. England toured India in 1981-82 and Kapil Dev was on full swing with bat at Kanpur where he has scored one of the fastest hundred (116 off 98 balls) of his career.
Don Bradman has taken two wickets in his career and one of those two was Wally Hammond, while Mike Atherton has taken two wickets and his victim was Dilip Vengsarkar and Wasim Akram.

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Deccan Chargers: Unlucky at home

With loss against Trinidad & Tobago at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad on Wednesday Deccan Chargers have lost all the 9 matches they played at home in the T20. They lost all the matches of the IPL 2008 at home and now lost two matches in the ongoing Champions League T20.
Normally the team performs well at home with all the suitable conditions favoring the home players but here we can say all the Deccan Chargers’ players are not from Hyderabad, this may be the reason which favors Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds, Scott Styris, Fidel Edwards or for that matter Rohit Sharma )Mumbai, RP Singh (Uttar Pradesh).
However Hyderabad is the only team who never won a match at home in T20 or T20 Internationals.
One can compare Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Canada, Kenya and some other minnows with Hyderabad so far One Day International is concern. Zimbabwe has won only 26.23% of ODIs played at home while lost 69.57%. They played 122 ODIs at home with 32-win and 85-loss record while Bangladesh has won 29.49% matches at home (23-win, 54-loss of the 78 played at home).
Other teams at home:
Team, match, won, lost, Win%
UAE, 2, 0, 2, 0.00%
Scotland 14, 3, 9, 21.43%
Canada, 13, 3, 9, 23.08%
Kenya, 48, 19, 29, 39.58%

In test matches Bangladesh has played 29 matches at home and won only ONE while lost 24 but most notable entry in this list is New Zealand. The Kiwis has won 23.98% test at home. They have played 171 test matches at home with only 41 won and 56 lost.

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THREE Tie in a day

Eagles and Sussex match of the Champions League Twenty20 tournament at Feroz Shah Kotla ground, New Delhi ended in a tie on Tuesday. This was the first ever tie in Champions League but 8th tie in the year 2009.
Since 2005 we have witnessed 23 Tied games so far and most notable thing is there were 3 tied games on a single day. That happened on 18 February 2009. The first one was at Hamilton between Northern Districts and Canterbury where both team scored 171 runs in 20 overs and then Canterbury won in the one-over eliminator.
On the same day Dolphins and Cape Cobras played the semi final of the Standard Bank pro20 series at Durban and scored 148 each in the end Cape Cobras won in the one-over eliminator. In the second semi final at Port Elizabeth Worriers bowled out for 97 in 19.3 overs but fought back and restrict Eagles for 6 for 97 in 20 overs. However Eagles was lucky to over come the rivals in the eliminator.
Some facts about the TIED games in T20.
*** There are 23 tied games so far.
*** This was the 8th tie match in the year 2009.
*** There were 7 such results in the year 2008.
*** This was the only 3rd tied match on Indian soil. Previous tie: Gujarat and Saurashtra tied in the Inter state T20 tourney at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai in April 2007.
*** Bulawayo ground witnessed two consecutive Ties in two days in May 2009. On 13th May Central and Western match ended in a tie and next day again Western tied against Northern.
*** Only 3 T20 International matches ended in a Tie and New Zealand and West Indies involved in two of them.
*** Inclemently both New Zealand-West Indies tie matches were played at Auckland.
** New Zealand beat West Indies on 16 February 2006 in the Bowl out but lost to the Caribbean but they lost in the one-over eliminator on the boxing day of 2008 against the same rival at Auckland.

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2000 runs in T20 cricket

It has been now 7 year of the inception of the shorter version of the game we know as T20 but surprisingly only two batsmen have crossed the 2000 run mark of their respective T20 career. Because of the nature of the game the batsman has little chance to play long innings or to play up to the last over.
With the score of 44 (not out), for Victoria Vs Wayamba at Delhi on Tuesday, Brad Hodge’s run aggregate reach to 2341 in 70 matches and David Hussey, also played with Hodge, reached 2047 runs in his 80 match career. These are the only two who reached this mark in the history of T20.
Hodge has scored 2341 runs in 67 innings 70 matches @41.80 including one century and 17 half centuries. Only Hylton Ackerman of Dolphins has scored 17 fifties in T20.
There are 60 batsmen who have scored 1000 or more runs in T20 and India’s Gautam Gambhir is at No 14 with 1411 runs in 53 matches.
The other Indians are Yuvraj Singh (1380), Rohit Sharma (1280), MS Dhoni (1170) and Virender Sehwag (1116).

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The (in)FAMOUS beamer

Deccan Chargers bowler Fidel Edwards was bowling against Somerset at Uppal, Hyderabad in the ongoing Champions league T20 match and suddenly taken off from the bowling. At that time Hyderabadi team had had every chance to defend their score of 153 but the atmosphere changed.
Edwards bowled a beamer to Somerset batsman Hildreth. It was the second beamer in the innings for West Indian pacer and umpire Daryl Harper had no option but to remove him from the bowling as he had been warned after bowling beamer to Marcus Trescothick on the very first ball of Somerset innings. The first one from Edwards was full outside off and second (in the 17th over, to Hildreth) was down the leg side.
With these beamers some similar incidence came to my mind. (We are talking about post bodyline era).
During the India-Zimbabwe series of 2001-02 at Nagpur visitor bowler Travis Friend was at the receiving end. In the 41st over of the Indian innings ball slips out of Friend’s hand and went as a beamer. Indian opener SS Das ducked and the keeper Taibu too gave away four byes. Umpire Venkataragahavan and David Shepherd warned the bowler.
Next day Travis Friend was at his best and hurled so many bouncers and generated some pace on a hot afternoon in Nagpur. During the 149th over of the innings he bowled a full beamer to Sachin Tendulkar He has been warned about this before and as per the rules (42.7 and 42.8) Umpire Venkat hand the young Travis Friend his glasses and hat and that was the end of Friend’s bowling for that innings.
Exactly one year later, on 11 February, umpire David Shepherd was at the bowlers’ end and the bowler was Waqar Younis. It was Pakistan-Australia match of the World Cup 2002-03 and Australians was approaching 300 mark. Waqar was bowling 49th over of the innings but he was removed from the attacked by umpire Shepherd after 3 balls of his 9th over, after bowling two full pitched deliveries.

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265 for the first wicket

Abhinav Mukund and Wasim Jaffer have put on 265 for the first wicket for India Blue against India Green during the ongoing NKP Salve Challenger Trophy One Day series. This is the new Challenger Trophy record and the equal the record of best first wicket partnership in Ranji Trophy One Day.
The previous best partnership in Challenger Trophy was 187 runs between Shikhar Dhavan and MS Dhoni for India Seniors Vs India B at Mumbai in 2004-05. However the first wicket fall at 246 but Dhoni retired hurt after having scored 87 and when the team score was 187. He returned when the score was 1/246 and remained not out for 102 in the team score of 2/278.
The best partnership for this wicket in Ranji One Day is also 265 posted by TP Singh and Amit Pagnis for the Railways against Bengal at Chennai in 2002-03.
World record: Ghulam Ali and Sohail Jaffer have put on 326* for the first wicket for PIA vs Agriculture Development bank of Pakistan at Sialkot in 2000-01.

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Tribute to Rajan Bala

Towering personality in Indian Sports journalism in general and cricket in particular and veteran scribe Rajan Bala passed away on Friday in Bangalore at the age of 63. He was highly regarded for his writing lair. He had worked for various newspapers like 'The Statesman', 'The Hindu', 'Deccan Herald', 'Indian Express', 'Afternoon Despatch and Courier' and 'The Asian Age'.
I have the privilege to consider him as my senior colleague, though never work together, as he was in the Indian Express when I began my career with Jansatta (Gujarati daily) of the same group.
A renowned cricket writer who used his pen with felicity, Rajan was an icon for the younger generation of writers of the willow game in the 1970s who followed his despatches from various parts of the cricket world with great interest.
I first met him during the India-Sri Lanka test at Motera, Ahmedabad in February 1994. After that meeting we had some memorable occasions in the press box when I visited Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi or when he came to Ahmedabad or Vadodara. I also covered some matches with his son Sanjay Rajan.
He completed his higher education in London and was a tremendous raconteur on the game and was also a voracious reader not only on cricket but on various other subjects too. But I can say he was a good listener too so far me experience is concern.
Most interesting fact about Bala was that he had had terrific understanding of the technical intricacies of the game, in fact the best you will ever see. Razor sharp in grasping the nuances, he was often sought by the lesser players for technical feedback and corrections.

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Ninety Nine Not Out

South African batsman JP Duminy stranded on 99 on Thursday while playing for Cape Cobras against Royal Challengers, Bangalore at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore in the opening match of the Champions League T20 tournament. This was the 3rd instance when a batsman remained not out on 99 in the T20 cricket.
Earlier Ashfaq Ahmed (L Egels Vs R Rams, Karachi, 2006) and Salman Butt (Lahore Lions Vs Quetta Bears, Lahore, 2008) have done it. In fact only three batsmen scored 99 runs in T20 and all of them remained not out.
No cricketer would like to stranded in the Nineties but this was the 60th instance when a batsman scored Nervous Nineties and 26 of them remained not out.
96 is the score where most batsmen remained not out. There are 5 instance of the 60 such cases when a batsman not out on the score of 96.
However 94 is the most unluckiest score among the nervous nineties as 10 batsmen hit this score in T20 and 5 of them remained not out.

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Youngest Centurion

One of Australia's greatest batsmen Neil Harvey was a gloriously elegant left-hander who remains his country's youngest centurion. He was 19 years and 122 days old when he stroked 153 against India in Melbourne in 1947-48.
Born on 8 October (1928) Harvey followed up with 112 in his next Test innings at Headingley the following summer against England in the Ashes.
Harevy was the youngest centurion then but with the time changes records have been broken he is now at No. 12 in the list of youngest centurions. Bangladeshi Mohammad Ashraful holds the records with a hundred at the age of 16 years and 364 days when he scored 114 against Sri Lanka at Colombo (ssc) in 2001-02.
On the list of top 12 (including Neil Harvey) only Mohammad Wasim (Pakistan) and Henry Vivian (New Zealand) could not make any more hundred in their respective test career,
Sachin Tendulkar is the youngest Indian and 3rd youngest in the history by scoring his maiden hundred at the age of 17 years and 112 days when he stroked 119* at Old Trafford, Manchester on 14 August 1990.
Interestingly Pakistan’s Ali Naqvi and Azhar Mahmood became the first pair of debutants to score centuries in the same innings. They have done it at Rawalpindi against South Africa in 1997.

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Trophies won by Australia

Australia added one more title to their glitttering cricketing cupboard by winning the Champions Trophy in Centurion, South Africa, on Monday. It was Australia’s 33rd ODI Trophy, in which at least 3 teams participated. They had earlier won the Benson & Hedges, Carlton & United, and VB series played at home.
With this victory, the Oz put all the other cricketing teams nations well behind them.
India are second behind the Oz with 22 trophies to their credit, while Pakistan and Sri Lanka shared the 3rd place with 21 titles each.
However, Australia had to wait for 16 years to officially gain this recognition, since the inception of ODIs. They won the World Cup in 1987-88 co-hosted by India and Pakistan and also some tri-series at home, but not a multinational involving more than 3 teams before that.
Only West Indies (1975 and 1979) and Australia have won the World Cup back-to-back and now Australia is the only team to win ICC Champions Trophy in succession. They won it in India in 2006-07 and now in 2009-10 (in South Africa).
The list of all teams and their trophies: Australia (33), India (22), Pakistan and Sri Lanka (21-21), West Indies (18), South Africa (12), England (9), New Zealand (6), Zimbabwe (4), Kenya and Netherlands (2 each), Bangladesh (1)

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600 run outs by Australians

When England last batsman Graham Onions run out during the ICC Champions Trophy semi final on Friday it was 600th victim of run out against Australia in the history of One Day International. This was Australia’s 719th ODI and Onions was 5550th wicket for Australia. So the Oz have taken 10.81% of there total wicket by run out.
Naturally Australians are very agile in the fielding but still this is not world record. There were 614 batsmen ran out themselves against India. So India is on top of the table so far made run out the rivals is concern and India’s percentage (12.71) is also high in comparison to Australia. However my friend Nikhilesh argues Australian bowlers are not giving that much chance to their fielder and statistics are also favors Nikhilesh ‘s argument.
Australian bowlers have taken more then 1000 wickets as BOWLED and 3171 wickets as CAUGHT.
Here are the details of how the teams have taken wickets as run out. (more then 100 run outs only)
Team (Run outs)

India (614)
Australia (600)
Pakistan (569)
West Indies (510)
Sri Lanka (492)
New Zealand (449)
South Africa (402)
England (395)
Zimbabwe (261)
Bangladesh (126)

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Century of Day 3 in ODI history

When New Zealand take on Pakistan in the first semifinal of the ICC
Champions Trophy on 3rd October at The Wanderers, Johannesburg, it
would be the 100th ODI to be played on the 3rd day of the month.
Before this, 99 matches have been played on the 3rd of the any month
of the calendar year and India has played most of it. Men in Blue are
involved in 26 encounters. Today's will be 10th match on 3rd October.
Similarly, most ODI matches hosted on a single date of the month are
115 each on 18th and 20th of the month. Pakistan have played 33 ODIs
on 20th of any month while India has played 31 matches on the 18th day
of a month. There are 9 days who completed of century of ODI. 102 on 9th date, 103 on 11th date, 100 on 12th day of the month, 104 on 14th day, 103 on 15th day, 102 on 17th day, 115 each on 18th and 20th day, 101 on 22nd day and 106 on 26th day.
India has played 33 matches on 26th of the month.
And at last… there are 15 ODIs played on 3 April (most on 3rd of any month) and only TWO on 3rd May and 3rd June.

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Its 250 anyway for England

When England will play against Australia at Centurion in the Semi final of the ICC Champions Trophy on Friday ‘the figure 250’ hit in any case. So far England has played 521 ODI. They won 249 and also lost 249 of them. So whether England won or loss it would be its 250th ODI. England involved 18 no result and 5 tied games.
Interestingly England won the toss for 250 times so far.
This will be England’s 9th Semi finals in any multi national tournaments. They have played 8 till date with 4-win, 4-loss record.
England and Australia have fought in 3 semi finals with only one won by former and 2 by later. In all ODI both have played 100 matches so far with Australia have won 58 of them. Both have played 7 matches at neutral venues and again Australia has upper hand with 5 wins. However in the Champions Trophy both have won one each in the previous TWO encounters.
Ricky Ponting needs 52 runs to become highest run scorer between the two rivals. Graham Gooch has scored 1395 runs in 32 ODI against England while Ponting scored 1343 in 33 so far against the arch rivals.
Brett Lee needs THREE wickets to over take former team mates Glenn McGrath’s 53 wickets against England. Brett Lee has 51 wickets in 27 matches Vs England while McGrath has played 33 matches for his 53 wickets.

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Wicket for Wicketkeeper : Dhoni done it

Indian team is now out of the ICC Champions Trophy but skipper MS
Dhoni entered the history books during the match against West Indies
by taking a wicket of Travis Dowlin. Dhoni is the only wicketkeeper to
have scored 4000 or more runs, more than 100 victims behind the
wickets and a wicket as a bowler. It was Dhoni’s first over of his ODI
career.
Dhoni also became the 3rd wicketkeeper to get wicket in ODI career
after Tatenda Taibu (Zimbabwe) and Devon Thomas of West Indies.
Taibu and Thomas have two wickets to their credit. Taibu have also
scored 2020 runs in 108 One Day Internationals and 108 dismissals (94
catches and 14 stumpings). He took two wickets for 42 runs against Sri
Lanka at Harare on 29 April 2004. On the other hand Devon Thomas has
taken 2 for 11 against Bangladesh at Roseau on 28 July this year.
Interestingly it was Thomas’ debut match.

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Hit Wicket in One Day International

Pakistani batsman Misbah-ul-Haq lost his wicket by being hit wicket against Australia at Centurion on Wednesday during the ICC Champions Trophy match. Thus he became the 54th batsmen in the history to be out HIT WICKET.
Some interesting facts about hit wicket.

*** Misbah is the 4th Pakistani batsmen after Inzmam-ul-Haq, Javed Miandad and Shoaib Malik to be out by hit wicket.
*** 9th batsmen to be out in such fashion against Australia.
*** West Indian Roy Fredricks was the first too out hit wicket. His most famous single shot was a failure, however: right at the start of the first World Cup final, he hooked a ball from Lillee over long-leg only to tread on his wicket in the process.
*** Australia’s Dennis Lille was the first bowler to get hit wicket.
*** West Indian great Courtney Walsh has the 4 hit wicket dismissals to his credit followed by Wasim Akram (3)
*** There are 6 batsmen who lost there wicket by being out hit wicket twice in their ODI career.
*** There are another 6 batsmen who were out hit wicket for no score.
*** Highest score when out hit wicket is 67 (by V Sibanda of Zimbabwe vs Ireland in 2007 WC)

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September 30 for India and Pakistan

India will play against West Indies on Wednesday in ICC Champions Trophy. The situation is not very good for MS Dhoni’s team as they need to beat West Indies to make the semi finals. India also needs for Pakistan’s victory against mighty Australia.
Here we will have a look how India and Pakistan have performed on September 30.
*** India has played 3 matches on this day with one-each win, loss and no result game.
*** Pakistan also has the same result. They played 2 ODIs on 30 September with one-win and one-loss record.
*** India beat Pakistan by 4 wickets at Karachi in 1997 but lost to Zimbabwe by 38 runs exactly one year later (1998). There was an abandoned match between India and Sri Lanka (ICC Champions Trophy final) at Colombo in 2002.
*** Pakistan beat Zimbabwe by 144 runs in 2004.
*** Abdul Razzaq (107*, Pakistan Vs Zimbabwe, 2004) and CB Wishart (102, Zimbabwe Vs India, 1998) are the two batsmen to register hundred on this day.
*** Australia and West Indies have never played an ODI on 30 September.

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1.5 Lakhs runs in ODI history

We are not talking about Sachin Tendulkar’s career runs or any prediction about his runs but the fact is Pakistan is going to complete 1, 50, 000 runs in its ODI history. When Pakistan will play against Australia in the ICC Champions Trophy league match at Centurion on Wednesday Younis Khan team will have to score only 34 runs to complete 1.5 Lakhs runs in ODI cricket.
Thus Pakistan will become 3rd team after Australia (1, 57, 016 runs in 713 innings of 717 matches) and India (1, 53, 658 in 713 innings of 720 matches) to do so. In fact Pakistan was the 2nd team (after Australia) to reach 1, 00, 000 runs but in recent time India overtook them by reaching 1.5 lakhs runs.
So far Pakistan has scored 1, 49, 934 runs in 704 ODIs at an average of 30.24. Australia’s average is 33.62 and India stood second with 31.60 runs per wicket.

How ever India has most hundred so far. Indian batsmen scored 163 hundred (thanks to Sachin Tendulkar’s 44 centuries) while Australia has 146 and Pakistan scored 142 hundreds. Only West Indies is the other team who scored hundreds of hundred by hitting 130 centuries. Sri Lanka is nearing for 100th as they have 99 centuries so far.

My friend from Mumbai Marcus Couto suggest to add some detail about this feat here posting Pakistan's performance against all teams .

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Century of NO RESULT game

India and Australia will have their Champions Trophy fortunes decided on Wednesday after a washout in the match between the two sides in Centurion on Monday. The fate of Australia and India now rests with the final two group matches, both on Wednesday. There was no centurion at Centurion, half-centuries from Ponting, Hussey and Tim Paine, but this was the 101st ODI which ended in NO RESULT.
The match between Canada and Kenya at King City was the 100th No Result ODI and India-Australia’s match was the 101 no result game of the 2901 ODIs played so far.
Here are some interesting facts about NO RESULT games.
All details of only NO RESULT matches (without a ball being bowled matches are not included)

Most played : 33 by India
Most Runs : 549 by Sachin Tendulkar
Most Wickets : 16 by Brett Lee
Most Matches : 27 by Sachin Tendulkar
Total hundreds : 12
Most hundreds : 4 by Sanath Jayasuriya
Highest score : 140 by Jayasuriya Sri Lanka Vs New Zealand at Bloemfontein, 8 Dec 1994
Best Bowling : 5/22 Matthew Hart New Zealand Vs West Indies, Margao, 26 Oct. 1994

Highest Total : 7/307 Australia Vs India at Bangalore on 29 September 2007
Lowest Total : 1 for no loss India Vs Sri Lanka at Mackay on 28 February 1992 (WC)
Most matches as captain : 13 by Stephen Fleming, New Zealand

India-Pakistan ODI on 31 October 1984 at Sialkot was abandoned due to assassination of the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

The redear can add other matches or circumstances or suggest at tushartrivedi10@gmail.com

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Hundred for the losing team

South Africa Vs England
Statistical highlight

*** South African skipper Graeme Smith (141 off 134 balls) has registered his eighth hundred in ODIs -- a career-best and his third century against
England is the second highest for a losing cause for South
Africa after Herschelle Gibbs' 143 against New Zealand at
Johannesburg in the 2003 World Cup.
*** Highest score for the losing team in the Day-Night match is 181* by Mathew Hayden for Australia Vs New Zealand at Hamilton in 2006-07.
*** Smith became 85th batsmen to have hit a hundred for the losing side in the Day-Night game.
*** England's 22-run victory is their first against South
Africa in the ICC Champions Trophy. With this England have won five ODIs in succession against South Africa.
*** England has recorded their fourth win in 19 one-dayers played on South African soil.
*** South Africa (301 for nine) posted their highest losing total while batting second at home.
*** England (323 for eight) have posted their best total against South Africa in ODIs
*** England's 323 for eight is the second highest total in the ICC Champions Trophy, next only to New Zealand's 347 for four against USA at The Oval in 2004.
*** Shah is the first batsman to hit six sixes in an ODI innings for England in the ICC Champions Trophy.
*** In England's innings, 12 sixes were recorded – a record for England in ODIs.
With the superb innings of 67 off 34 balls Eoin Morgan's completed his
1,000 runs in ODI career.

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Had Suresh Raina hit the ton….

*** Suresh Raina missed his half century by just 4 runs and India lost the match. Had he scored 50 India might win the match (you can say that). As Suresh Raina had hit 10 half centuries and TWO hundreds so far in his ODI career and India never lost those matches. His highest score is 46 (this match) in the matches India lost.
*** Same thing can be apply with Gautam Gambhir (57) as India lost only second ODI when Delhi southpaw scored 50 plus. He has hit 16 half centuries and India won in 14 of them.
*** There was not a single sixer in Pakistan score of 302. This is the only 4th instance when a team filed to hit any sixes in the score of more then 300. Incidently Indian team involved in 3 of the 4 occasions. However once when they batted.
India (309) failed to hit any six against Australia at Cochi in 1997-98
South Africa (321) missed sixes against Pakistan at Nairobi in 1996-97
Sri Lanka (309) not able to hit any sixes Vs India at Colombo on 12 September 2009
Pakistan (302) Vs India on 26 Sept 2009 at Centurion
*** This time it was lucky century for Shoaib Malik against India. As he has scored 4 hundreds against the arch rival and Pakistan lost two of them.
*** This was the 24th occasion when India failed to chase the target of over 300 and 8th time this has happened against Pakistan.
*** However India has won 8 ODI by achieving the target of over 300 in its ODI history.
*** This was the 128th instance when Sachin Tendulkar failed to reach DOUBLE FIGURE out of 429 ODI he has played so far. India lost 62 of them and won 54 so far.
*** This was the 22nd occasion when an Indian bowler (Ashish Nehra 4 for 55) took 4 or more wickets in an innings ant the team lost the match. Ajit Agarkar is on top of the list with 6 for 42 Vs Australia at Melbourne on 9 January 2004 and India lost that VB series match by 18 runs.

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Out to the first ball of the innings

Australian opener Shane Watson out to the first ball of the innings against the West Indies on Saturday in the ICC Champions Trophy match at the New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg. This was the 94th instance in 2897 ODI matches in history.
This is the 8th instance when an Australian batsman out on the first ball of the innings, interestingly Adam Gilchrist was out for FOUR times of these 8 instances.
But this is the only 2nd time that the West Indian bowler able to get the wicket of Australian opener off the first ball. In 1984-85 Graeme Wood was out on the first ball against West Indies.
Sanath Jayasuriya and Adam Gilchrist are the only two batsmen who lost their wicket to the first ball of a team innings for FOUR times.
24 of the 94 batsmen were bowled, like Shane Watson, on the first ball. There are 45 batsmen out CAUGHT while 22 have lost there wicket by being leg before wicket. However Zimbabwe’s Matsikenyeri and Canada’s Mohammad Iqbal were run out on the first ball of their team innings.
In all this was the 16 instance when a batsman lost his wicket on first ball against West Indies. 11 times each it has happened against New Zealand and Pakistan.

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India, Pakistan and Saturday

India and Pakistan will play its league match of the ICC Champions Trophy on Saturday at the Centurion Park, Ceturion India would seek to draw inspiration from history. India beat Pakistan on the same ground in 2003 World Cup with help of masterful 98 off 75 balls from Sachin Tendulkar.
The interesting thing is it was Saturday on 1 March 2003 and again it is Saturday tomorrow when both meets at Centurion. The day is not significant as far as the cricket history but for India-Pakistan match everything is significant.
India and Pakistan have played 117 ODI so far and 16 of them were on Saturday while 29 of them were Friday. On Saturday both have won 8 ODI each but if we takes September month into account India has upper hand. Both have met 5 times on Saturday of the September and India has won 3 and lost 2 of them.
On 1st March 2003 (Saturday) India beat Pakistan by 6 wickets at Centurion.
Here are some details of India-Pakistan Saturday matches.

28 Oct. 1989 at Kolkata, Pak won by 77 runs
9 Mar 1996 at Bangalore, India won by 39 runs
21 Sept 1996 at Toronto, Pak won by 97 runs
13 Sept 1997 at Toronto, India won by 20 runs
20 Sept 1997 at Toronto, India won by 7 wkts
12 Sept 1998 at Toronto, India won by 6 wkts
19 Sept 1998 at Toronto, Pak won by 134 runs
3 June 2004 at Dhaka, Pak won by 44 runs
1 Mar 2003 at Centurion, India won by 6 wkts
13 Mar 2004 at Karachi, India won by 5 runs
21 Aug 2004 at Amstelven, Pak won by 66 runs
13 Nov 2004 at Kolkata, Pak won by 6 wkts
2 April 2005 at Cochin, India won by 87 runs
9 April 2005 at Jamshedpur, Pak won by 106 runs
11 Feb 2006 at Rawalpindi, India won by 7 wkts
14 June 2008 at Mirpur, Pak won by 25 runs


India Vs Pakistan

(Day, Match, India won, Pak won, No result)
Sunday (25, 10, 14, 1)
Monday (9, 5, 4, 0)
Tuesday (12, 6, 6, 0)
Wednesday (16, 6, 7, 3)
Thursday (10, 5, 5, 0)
Friday (29, 5, 24, )
Saturday (16, 8, 8, 0)

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Ohh Sachin Tendulkar

One of my friend Pranoy Panchal has forward this file to me about Sachin Tendulkar’s records and some feats. Posting this with thanks to Pranoy.

New Records..... ......... ..
1. Highest Run scorer in the Test and ODI

Records Held by Sachin Tendulkar
1. Highest Run scorer in the ODI
2. Most number of hundreds in the ODI 41
3. Most number of nineties in the ODI 17
4. Most number of man of the matches(56) in the ODI's
5. Most number of man of the series(14) in ODI's
6. Best average for man of the matches in ODI's
7. First Cricketer to pass 10000 run in the ODI
8. First Cricketer to pass 15000 run in the ODI
9. He is the highest run scorer in the world cup (1,796 at an average of 59.87 )
10. Most number of the man of the matches in the world cup
11. Most number of runs 1996 world cup 523 runs @87.16
12. Most number of runs in the 2003 world cup 673 runs in 2003 Cricket World Cup, highest by any player in a single World Cup
13. He was Player of the World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
14. Most number of Fifties in ODI's 91
15. He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years.
16. Most number of 100's in test's 42
17. He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket, and the first Indian to do so
18. He is thus far the only cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honor
19. In 2003, Wisden rated Tendulkar as the No. 1 and Richards at No. 2 in all time Greatest ODI player
20. In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman.
21. he was involved in unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris Shield game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli,
22. Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all three of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts
23. In 1992, at the age of 19, Tendulkar became the first overseas born player to represent Yorkshire
24. Tendulkar has been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award and Padma Shri by Indian government. He is the only Indian cricketer to get all of them.
25. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODI's 7 times
27. Tendulkar has scored 1894 runs in calendar year in ODI's most by any batsman
28. He has the least percentage of the man of the matches awards won when team looses a match.. Out of his 56 man of the match awards only 5 times India has lost.
29. Tendulkar most number man of match awards(10) against Australia
30. In November 2006, Time magazine named Tendulkar as one of the Asian Heroes.
31. In December 2006, he was named "Sports person of the Year
32. Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 50 centuries in international cricket
33. He has scored most number of runs in test cricket.
34. Sachin Tendulkar with Sourav Ganguly hold the world record for the maximum number of runs scored for the opening partnership. They have put together 6,610 runs in 136 matches
35. The 21 century partnerships for opening pair with Sourav Ganguly is a world record
36. Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid hold the world record for the highest partnership in ODI matches when they scored 331 runs against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999
37. Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run partnerships in ODI matches - a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid
38. Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998
39. Highest individual score among Indian batsmen (186* against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999).
40. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major Cricketing nations.

There are somany other feats and records. The redears also add in this list. For more detail pls contact tushartrivedi10@yahoo.com

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Windies never lost to Pak in CT

Pakistan never won against West Indies on South African soil

Pakistan Vs West Indies
2nd match of the Champions Trophy 2009-10
At Johannesburg on 23 September

*** This will be the 114th match between Pakistan and West Indies.
Pakistan has won 47 and lost 64 of them.
*** However Pakistan lost only THREE ODIs against West Indies since 2004-05. Last time Pakistan lost to West Indies at Kingston during 2007 World Cup.
*** Both have played 4 matches in South Africa and West Indies has won all of them (all in 1992-93)
*** This will be the 3rd encounter between these teams in ICC Champions Trophy. West Indies has won both the previous matches. By 30 runs at Dhaka in 1998 and by 7 wickets at Rose Bowl in 2004.

Head to Head
Highest TotalWest Indies: 4-339 at Adelaide in 2004-05
Pakistan: 8-307 at Perth in 2004-05
Lowest TotalWest Indies: 103 at Melbourne in 1996-97
Pakistan: 43 at Cape Town in 1992-93
Most RunsWest Indies: 2390, DL Haynes in 65 matches.
Pakistan: 1930 by Javed Miandad in 64 matches.
Highest scoreWest Indies: 156 by Brian Lara at Adelaide in 2004-05
Pakistan: 131 by Saeed Anwar at Sharjah in 1993-94
Most WicketsWest Indies: 69 by Curtly Ambrose in 44 matches
Pakistan: 89 by Wasim Akram in 64 matches.
Best BowlingWest Indies: 5/23, Franklin Rose at Arnos Vale in 1999-00
Pakistan: 6/18 Azhar Mahmood at Sharjah in 1999-00

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Sanath Jayasuriya’s unlucky 10

Jersey no 10 may be Lucky for Sachin Tendulkar or football star Diego Maradona but this figure is not that much lucky for Sanath Jayasuriya.
In the opening match of the ICC Champions Trophy against South Africa at Centurion on Tuesday Sri Lankan opener Jayasuriya was out on 10.
This was the 8th time the master blaster was out on this number of score and his team has lost the match for 5 out of the 7 previous occasions.
First time Jayasuriya was out on 10 against Australia at Colombo (RPS) in 1999-00 and Sri Lanka lost that match by 27 runs.
However last time, in August 2008, when he scored 10, at Dambulla against India, his team won by 8 wickets.
Jayasuriya lost his wicket on 10 for twice against India, England and Pakistan.

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South Africa has upper hand

1st match of the Champions Trophy 2009-10
At Centurion
*** This will be the 46th match between South Africa and Sri Lanka. The home team has won 22 and lost 21 of them.
*** Both have played 17 matches in South Africa and Sri Lanka lost 12 of them, they won only 4 in South Africa while one ended in no result. Both have played one match on this ground in November 2002 which was won by South Africa by 177 runs.
*** This will be the 3rd encounter between these teams in ICC Champions Trophy. South Africa has won both the previous matches.
Some other records
*** Highest Total
South Africa: 6-317 at Centurion in 2002
Sri Lanka: 8-308 at Colombo (SSC) in 2004
*** Lowest Total
South Africa: 154 at Colombo (RPS) in 1993-94
Sri Lanka: 98 at Colombo (RPS) in 1993-94

*** Most Runs
South Africa: 1279 by Jacques Kallis in 30 matches.
Sri Lanka: 1164 by MS Atapattu in 34 matches.
*** Highest score
S Africa: 125* by HH Dippenaar at Adelaide in 2005-06
Sri Lanka: 124 by MS Atapattu at Kingsmead in 2002-03
*** Most Wickets
South Africa: 53 by SM Pollock in 35 matches
Sri Lanka: 49 by M Muralitharan in 31Matches.

*** Best BowlingSouth Africa: 6/49, Lance Klusner at Lahore in 1997-98
Sri Lanka: 5/26 by Nuwan Zoysa at Colombo (RPS) in 2004

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